"Build the wall" Trump plans July trip to Israel

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 1, 2016, 7:30 PM (IDT)

Donald Trump, presumptive US president nominee, plans to visit Israel a few days before his Republican party convention opens in Cleveland July 18, debkafiles sources in Washington and Jerusalem report. But still under discussion are the exact dates of the visit, the Israeli public figures he will meet and the sites he will visit.

The timing of the trip is planned for Trump to reach the convention hall in Cleveland directly from Israel, while issuing statements of support for the Jewish state along the way. Just as importantly he will guarantee to terminate the secret military cooperation deal between the US and Iran if he is elected President, while warning Iran against going forward with the development of its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

The visit and its schedule are being worked out by the candidate's legal officer for his business and his advisor on Israeli affairs, Jason Dov Greenblatt, who is an Orthodox Jew from New Jersey, and Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador in Washington.

Trump has evidently changed his mind since December 2015, when he announced: "I have decided to postpone my trip to Israel and to schedule my meeting with Netanyahu at a later date after I become President of the US."

At the time, there were 16 Republicans running for president and very few Israeli intelligence experts imagined the candidate would last long enough to challenge Hillary Clinton.

Had the Trump visit taken place seven months ago, it would have consisted of not much more than a photo-op of shaking hands with Netanyahu. The visit at this stage will have a more practical import.

One of Trump's important objectives would be to demonstrate the feasibility of the wall he is hard-selling between the US and Mexico, to curb the flow of illegal migrants to the US. He hopes to point to the 240km fence Israel erected along its border with Egypt as a good example for one of his key campaign slogans to build the wall. It is a fact that the Sinai barrier staunched the flow of potentially millions of migrants into Egypt and through there to Israel. The wall built in the year 2015, has proved massive enough to act as a barrier against ISIS intrusions from Egyptian Sinai.

A visit to the southern fence will be essential to Trump's visit, along with explanations from IDF high ranking officers and a photo shoot with soldiers from the Karakal battalion who are defending the fence. There will also be a visit to the northern security fence along the border with Syria and Lebanon.

These tours will give Trump an opportunity to speak about his support to Israel, and will also allow him to criticize President's Obama’s policy and that of Hillary Clinton regarding what goes on beyond that fence, in the wars in Syria and in Iraq against ISIS.

Trump will also be able to speak against Washington's support for the Iranian forces taking part in these wars and denigrate the covert US and Iranian military cooperation. He is aware that one of Obama's last goals before leaving office is to push the US-Iranian detente as one of his main achievements.

Indeed, after his visits to Kobe and Hiroshima in Japan, Obama is preparing to travel to Tehran or any other venue, to stage a meeting with Iran's president Hassan Rouhani. debkafile's Iranian sources report that the White House has already sent feelers to this end. During Trump's upcoming visit to the fence along Israel's northern border, he will declare his intentions to block such moves when he enters the White House.

The new Israeli government is extreme and is not liked by a majority of American Jews.

PS. All that money pledged by Adelson to Trump might be given to Karl Rove which will not help Trump.

It would appear, in spite of their headline, that NY Mag agrees with you. However, this article is chocked full of other disturbing news.

Trump Is Considering a Pre-Convention Visit to Israel

Having made major progress toward unifying a hostile Republican Party, Donald Trump is now seeking to win over another skeptical constituency: politically conservative Jews. According to four sources briefed on the discussions, Trump is considering traveling to Israel sometime before the GOP convention in July to bolster his support among Middle East hawks. In February, the candidate lost the confidence of many Israel backers when he said he would be "neutral" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and associates of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson are organizing the potential tour, sources say. "This is a typical time frame when a general-election candidate has an opportunity to flex his foreign-policy muscles," one Trump staffer says. (Later this month, Trump plans to visit Scotland).

Trump sources cautioned that an Israel trip has yet to be finalized. The planning is delicate, and not only because Trump supporters have launched anti-Semitic online attacks on Jewish journalists who've covered Trump. In December, Trump canceled a planned visit to Jerusalem after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Trump's call to ban Muslim immigration. According to sources, Trump was furious that Netanyahu didn't call him before issuing his statement (Trump's father, Fred, became friends with Netanyahu in the 1980s when Netanyahu served as a U.N. ambassador). Trump blamed Kushner for the debacle, telling him, "This was all your idea!" The candidate tweeted he would not meet with Netanyahu until he became president.

But since then, Trump has made wooing the Jewish community a priority. In March, Trump used a teleprompter for the first time while delivering a speech — written by Kushner and Observer editor Ken Kurson — to the AIPAC conference. Last month Trump welcomed a group of Orthodox Jewish journalists to his office at Trump Tower. He has also forged a closer relationship with Adelson since tweeting last fall that the other candidates in the GOP primary field were puppets of the conservative megadonor.

According to two sources, the Trump campaign has indicated to Adelson that Adelson's preferred choice for vice-president, Newt Gingrich, will be given a senior role in a Trump administration even if he doesn't get the VP nod. Adelson, of course, is one of Netanyahu's most vocal supporters. Yesterday, Politico reported Adelson advisers are in talks to set up a new pro-Trump super-pac.

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Netanyahu had thrown a temper tantrum in December so a planned visit had been cancelled. It could get back on if there is positive results from negotiations. But Israel is planning another war on Gaza. That would cancel the trip.

Now we all know who ass Tramp, sorry Trump, is kissing. Remember: Sanders is the only person that did not speak at AIPAC. By Trump going to jew land, then war with Iran will happen if he or any other get in. "We the People" are totally FRELLED.